NURSE-FACULTY WORK MOTIVATION AND PUBLICATION PRODUCTIVITY IN RELATION TO CORE JOB CHARACTERISTICS, JOB SATISFACTION AND DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES (HACKMAN AND OLDHAM'S THEORY, DIAGNOSTIC SURVEY).
Contributors: Boston University.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to extend to the university setting Hackman and Oldham's Job Characteristic Theory of Work Motivation by investigating the relationships among graduate program nurse-faculty's perceptions of core job characteristics, job satisfaction, internal work motivation, publication productivity within the past five years and demographic characteristics of age, professional age and tenure status.

The hypotheses predicted that core job characteristics and job satisfaction would be positively related to internal work motivation and publication productivity. Also professional age was expected to be positively related to publication productivity. The study instrument consisted of the Job Diagnostic Survey, Short-Form developed by Hackman and Oldham and the Graduate Faculty Publication Productivity Questionnaire designed by the writer. Administered by mail to 687 nurse-faculty with earned doctorates teaching in graduate programs of collegiate schools of nursing which confer doctoral degrees in nursing, the instrument elicited data for hypotheses testing from 317 respondents (46 percent).

Data analysis, which included univariate, bivariate and multiple regression analysis established the existence of statistically significant relationships in seven of the twelve hypotheses tested. A probability of .05 or less was used as the level of statistical significance. The conclusions indicate that for this population of nurse-faculty, the core job characteristics variable appears to be a predictor of publication productivity and the best predictor of internal work motivation. General job satisfaction appears to be a predictor of internal work motivation and quantity of publication productivity. Tenure status appears to be a predictor of publication productivity and the best predictor of quantity of publication productivity. Professional age appears to be a predictor of publication productivity and the best predictor of quality of publication productivity. As this population's chronological and professional age increases their internal work motivation appears to decrease. Chronological age appears not to be a predictor of quantity of publication productivity. Variables other than the ones included in this study are predictors of internal work motivation and publication productivity.

The implications of this study for nursing education, research and educational management are discussed.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0096.

Thesis (ED.D.)--BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 1986.

School code: 0017.